Turkey
EU-Turkey deal 'may break migrant trafficking chain in 10 days'
The migrant trafficking chain into the EU between Turkey and Greece could be broken within "10 days at most" if a final deal can be reached between Ankara and Brussels, a ranking government official told the Hürriyet Daily News on March 11.
The Turkish visa ordeal
The fate of poor refugees has been offered in exchange for visa-free travel to Europe for Turkish citizens?
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INTERVIEW: Local rivalry key to understanding Turkey's Kurdish question
Turkey's Kurdish issue is often framed simply as "Turkish military vs. Kurdish militants." Since the collapse of the peace process last summer, hundreds of soldiers, militants and innocent civilians have been killed and hundreds of thousands of locals displaced from their homes. Since 1980 tens of thousands have died and swathes of southeastern Anatolia have been militarized.
Bulgaria Detains 66 Irregular Migrants at Border with Turkey in 24 Hours
Bulgarian border police have thwarted attempts of a total of 66 irregular migrants to cross the country's border with Turkey over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of the Interior announced in a statement on Friday.
Bulgaria Seeks Right to Send Back Migrants to Turkey to Back EU's Deal with Ankara
Bulgaria has tied its support for a final EU-Turkey agreement on curbing the migrant inflow into Europe to the opportunity to send illegal migrants back to Turkey, public TV broadcaster BNT reported on Friday.
Two Merkel ministers back Turkey's EU bid
Two ministers from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government have voiced support for Turkey's European Union bid, two days before elections in three federal states will prove if Merkel has lost ground or not due to her open-door migrant policy that came under criticisim especially from nationalist parties.
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Iraqi forces advance against ISIL in Anbar
Iraqi forces retook a town from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the Anbar province on March 10 and evacuated 10,000 civilians as they advanced up the Euphrates valley, a security spokesman said.
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Lavrov urges UN envoy to include Kurds in Syria talks
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on March 11 urged the U.N.'s special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura to include Kurds in upcoming talks that aim to resolve the five-year Syrian civil war, while also lashing out at Turkey for blocking the Syrian Kurds from being involved in the talks.
Defense exports rise in 2016: Statistics
Turkish defense exports rose 30 percent in the first two months of the year compared to the same period last year, according to statistics released by the Turkish Exporters' Assembly on March 11.
The country's defense exports for January and February were valued at over $255.9 million, a 30 percent increase compared with $196.4 million in the same period last year.
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Bulgaria Expects Rise in German Tourist Numbers in Summer 2016
German tour operator TUI will increase by 35% its charter flights from Germany to Varna and Burgas, on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast, in Summer 2016 compared with last year, Bulgaria's Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said.